1916 New York Cuban Stars

Stories are placed in order of the date they appeared.

May 28, 1920

New York, NY
"Cuban Stars Here. - Crack Team From Havana Arrive for a Tour of This Country. - The Cuban Stars made up of the best baseball material of Havana, arrived in this city Sunday morning on the Ward liner Esperanza from Havana. The ship stopped on its way North for a day at Nassau, and as a result was forced to cancel its game with the Bushwicks scheduled for yesterday at Ridgewood Park."

Jersey City, NJ
"Cubans Beat Chinese Team. - Jersey City Ball Club Downs Orientals by Count of 5 to 0. - It is taking the combined efforts of nine hard-hitting, fast fielding, dark skinned sons to put Jersey City back on the baseball map, and they are doing so in a manner filled with both snap and vim. Playing before a crowd of 6,500 fans, the Cubans took the Chinese team of the University of Hawaii into camp last Sunday at the West Side Park by a score of 6 to 0. Hungo's triple with the bases full in the first inning gave the Cubans a three-run lead."

August 13, 1916

Harlem, NY
"Cubans Play Lincoln Giants. - Tomorrow afternoon at Olympic Field, 136th Street and Fifth Avenue, the famous Cuban Stars from Havana will play the Lincoln Giants, world's colored champions, in a double-header, commencing at 1:30p.m. The crack players from Cuba have been making a great record on the road and are now at the top of their form and expect to break the great winning streak of the colored champions. The visitors from the Antilles are big favorites here and a record crowd is looked for."

Harlem, NY
"At Olympic Field. - The Lincoln Giants won a double header from the Cuban Stars at Olympic field yesterday, the first game, an eleven inning tilt, 8 to 7, and the second 7 to 6. In the first, with two out and two on bases, Williams, after two strikes were called on him, hit the ball over the centre field fence for a homer. As only one run was needed to win, his hit went only for a single. Forbes hit two circuit drives in the second game."

August 27, 1916

Brooklyn, NY
"Cubans at Ridgewood. - The Long Branch Cubans and the Cuban Stars will meet in a double header at Wallace's Ridgewood Grounds, Halsey Street and Wyckoff avenue, Brooklyn, this Sunday. It will be the first time this season that these teams oppose each other. Most of the players of both teams have clashed during the winter months in Havana. Sunday's games are sure to be keenly contested from the start. Munoz, who has a record of nineteen victories out of twenty-two games, will face Suarez in the final contest. The first game will start at 1:30."

Brooklyn, NY
"At Ridgewood Grounds. - Before one of the biggest crowds seen at the Ridgewood Grounds this season the Long Branch Cubans defeated the Cuban Stars yesterday by a score of 5 to 4. Sensational fielding featured. The teams were to have played a double header, but a heavy downpour caused all hands to seek shelter after four innings of the second tilt had been played."

September 2, 1916

Brooklyn, NY
"Cubans vs. Royal Giants. - The Long Branch Cubans and the Royal Giants will play a double header at Wallace's Ridgewood grounds, Halsey street and Wyckoff avenue, tomorrow. The Cubans, who have defeated some of the leading white semi-pro nines in the East, will find tomorrow's opponents a little tougher than those they met so far. The Royals last Sunday twice beat the crack Lincoln Giants. Stringbean Williams, former star hurler of the middle West, will pitch for the Royals and Munoz will oppose him. Munoz early this season won seventeen consecutive games."